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I use both a lot, so here are some thoughts comparing Gmail with the Fastmail web client: - Fastmail has a slightly buggy rich text editor, but it's pretty fea

by mhdhn 4y ago

I use both a lot, so here are some thoughts comparing Gmail with the Fastmail web client: - Fastmail has a slightly buggy rich text editor, but it's pretty feature rich, including full bidirectional language support. It's not as slick overall as Gmail's, but it's overall usable enough to not make me want to switch to Gmail. - mail search is not as slick as Google's, which is like world-class search smarts applied to just your inbox. Fastmail's is still pretty good, just not able to compare. Advanced search is also clunkier in Fastmail in various ways, and takes an extra click to get back into when you have to refine an advanced search. There are two features in Fastmail web client that Gmail web client does not support (that I'm aware of) that I would not want to live without: (1) Edit as New, and (2) Send a Copy.

benhurmarcel 4y ago
> mail search is not as slick as Google's, which is like world-class search smarts applied to just your inbox My workplace switched to Gmail not long ago, and many people complain that the search doesn't work for partial words. For example if an email contains the reference a12b3456789, it won't show up when you search for a12b.
- mhdhn 4y ago
  In a case like this, where it's just a partial substring of an arbitrary string of characters, Fastmail would not do any better.